The Coffinmaker’s Garden

I've read a few Stuart MacBride books and this one was as amazing as some of the others I've read.

This was really well written, and I loved the balance between dark/gruesome and humour. Stuart clearly has a knack for that! The descriptive writing and setting of the scenes was also excellently done (I don't think I'd have the courage to go down into a basement where the house was in danger of falling off a cliff! There were a couple of those moments in the story and they were so well written, I actually felt like I was there!)

The characters were really well written too, and I loved Ash (he's one tough cookie despite Stuart putting him through hell!), Alice, Shifty, DS Franklin (she might have started off as grumpy but she totally grew on me) and DI Malcolmson (or Mother as she's also referred as!).

I've read the second Ash Henderson book, but not the first so I'm totally going to read that.

Thank you to Pigeonhole and Stuart MacBride for the chance to read this book.